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[sophiaserpentia]

Remember laughing over the hoax a couple of weeks ago, about Metallica supposedly suing another group for using the E and F chords?

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction:

Fox News sues Al Franken for using the phrase "fair and balanced" in the subtitle of his new book.

Maybe Shakespeare was onto something about that "killing all the lawyers" thing. Well, maybe not all of them, some of them are alright. But a culling may be in order.


Edit: Truth is stranger than fiction department two:

The Game Show Network has announced a special for October 1:

Who Wants to be Governor of California?

Five candidates will compete for a campaign contribution of $21,200.

Comments

[erisson.livejournal.com]

Well, that's obviously your opinion. Unfortunately, most people today (and I fall into this, too) tend to think something is fair and/or ballanced if it fits with their political world view.

As far as facts go, in my opinion watching the various networks over the course of the conflict in Iraq, Fox did a better job of keeping the editorializing out of the news segments than any of the other networks (including CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC and CNN). Admittedly, Fox's opinion shows slant to the right, but so what?

[mlfoley.livejournal.com]

Fox definitely has some decent coverage, but everything about it is slanted to the right, from the morning show commentators attacking "liberals" to Bill O'Reilley.

[erisson.livejournal.com]

Again, so? There apears to be a market for it, so they're satisfying the demand. And as I said, I don't see much of a bias in the actual news coverage. Though that may be because whatever bias is there mirrors my own.